A few months before the death of Edgard Varèse (1883–1965), Gunther Schuller (1925–2015) sat down with the composer for an in-depth conversation: his career and friendships, collaborations, new instruments, and the rare freedom he allowed the sounds they produced... Published for the first time in English and French, this is a rare testament for all lovers of "sounds."
I don't care about reaching the public as much as I care about reaching certain musical-acoustical phenomena, in other words, to disturb the atmosphere – because, after all, sound is only an atmospheric disturbance!
